The Phonogram (II), Issue 1

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The Ninety and Nine,
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A RIDDLE.

It's round and kmg ai
Cylindrical in shape
It's heard in every tc
From it you can't

It’s round, and browi
It’s center is a hoi
It’s music, speech an
It’s human all but

is for the millionaire and the humblest toiler in the land.
It is for the Royalty — the Queen, the Emperor, and the
Sultan — as well as for plain John Smith of Lonely Hollow,
Wis. The President has one. Senators, Supreme Court
Judges, janitors and preachers find a certain charm in one
or another of its accomplishments ; each finding something
in the instrument that suits his needs.

New uses are found daily.

The Salvation Army has tumbled to the Phonograph.
Ask Ensign Johnson, in charge of the Canonsburg Corps
at Washington, Pa., how he*d get along without it.
Talk to Major Robert Bell, chief divisional officer of the
Army of Connecticut. He will tell you of his New
London meetings last Spring, in which he drew large
crowds daily and nightly at Army Hall, 436 Bank Street.
Get the experiences of Brigadier Brengle at his Norwalk,
Conn, meetings, and elsewhere. Write to Ensign and
Mrs. Atkins about their rally at Bath, N. Y., where they
saved many souls at their hall in the Ayer Building.
Write to Cadet French of Norwalk, Cos
the Salvation Army in New Albany, Ind
Ky., and all over the country.

Verily, verily, the talking machine hati
work in the saving of souls.

Here is the ** experience** of a well known Toledo
man, as r eported in the Chicago Tribune , last August.

“ M. O. Waggoner, the infidel who has announced his
intention of sacrificing his valuable collection of books
treating on infidelism and will make a bonfire of them in
public, was converted in a peculiar manner. Mr. Wag-
goner, who is 76 years old, is a lawyer, and ranks high in
the Lucas County Bar. He made open avowal of his con-

Talk to
Louisville,

ARMY

salvation

its jubilatio

version in tne presence or a large congregation j
Memorial Church in this city recently.

Some time ago he listened to the sermon of an evai
and the thought of his disbelief preyed on his mind,
has a gramophone with which he is wont to amuse
self, and at midnight, being unable to sleep, he arose

The air of “ Praise God from Whom All Blessings
Flow ” filled the room, and this was followed by u Rock
of Ages Cleft for Me.** At the conclusion Mr. Wag-
goner was singing and shouting praises of the Lord.**

Mr. Waggoner burned his infidel books. His first idea
was to have a public bonfire, but he decided, in view of the
fact that many might doubt his sincerity, to burn them in the
furnace of the Memorial United Brethren Church, corner
of Lawrence Avenue and Hicks Street, which was done
last January, in the presence of the Rev. £. P. Rosselot,
the pastor, and a few intimate friends. He appeared to be
the happiest man in Toledo as he saw the flames gradually

of by Edison,
Betti ni when

All hail, therefore, to

Tamter, Macdonald

through

IT CAUGHT

THE DEACONS

Among the numbers given at a recent Phonograph
entertainment in a little Presbyterian Church out in the
suburbs, was a song “The County Fair,** and the usual
race track accompaniments — band playing a lively air,
crowd shouting for the race to begin, etc. When the
performance started some of the more conservative mem-
ben exchanged glances of horror, as the unconverted
44 graph*’ with brazen disregard of all pious scruples.

huzzas of the crowd. They were not sure whether they
were in a church or in the grandstand of some driving park
association, but as the rhythmic movement of hurrying
hoofs came louder and clearer, horror gave place in the
sport of “Get there,** etc., and when the winner passed
the judges* stand and the clang of the bell announced the
close of the race, it was observed that even the deacons
did not abstain from the applause that followed. — Netvs,
Detroit, Mich. . *

IT’S NATURALNESS DECEIVED

A countryman dropped into the bar at the
and called for a drink. Just as he was abot
beneath his vest the Phonograph began to pta
popular cake walks. A look akin to terror c
face. He set his glass down on the bar ar
bolt for the door exclaimed: “Gee Willikins !
the Warren band down the street and I forj
horses.** — Democrat , Warren, Pa.

IC THE PHONOGRAM

WHO HAS EVER HEARD OF A PHONO-
GRAPH BUOY?

After George Ade.

A Twentieth Century Inventor who hails from Oshkosh,
Wit., and Who Says that “ his hat has no holes in it *’
either, propounds the following Crisp One. Just now he
has Charge of the Draw One in a Dennett Beanery. “We
intend to place one of our Phonograph buoys on the noted
Kitty Hawk reef at the mouth of the Savannah River. At
present a bell buoy marks that dangerous reef, and you
know the action of the waves tolls the bell of the buoy.
It will doubtless surprise many vessel captains to hear our
buoy, with its dear distinct sound, say, ‘I am Kitty
Hawk, Kitty Hawk, Kitty, Kitty Hawk,’ and they will
hear it further than they can hear the bell buoy.**

It remains to be seen if he continues to Reach Out Side-
ways for the Brim of his Hat, or if he makes a Quick Touch
on some Easy Mark and Nails him as a Backer and Makes
Good. It is a Large Project that the Oshkosh One has
suggested. The Objections are in the Line of the Corrup-
tion that cometh through Moth and Rust — principally Rust.
And How a delicate Mechanism like the Phonograph could
be Tossed and Buffetted by Mont Waves and yet avoid harm,
is yet Also to be explained. At the Present Stage of the
game, his Talk Talk is technically known as Hot Air.
Until the Beanery Manager hires another Intellectual Giant
to “draw one in the dark, * thus releasing the Inventor
from his Arduous Duties, we fear that he and his Good
Thing will remain in Innocuous Desuetude .

B is for BUOY

Tossed by the wave:
Hoarsely it bellows,
It warns and it save:

12

THE PHONOGRAM

TALKING CLOCKS.

And why not ?

Certainly yes: if people want them. Which, after all if
only a question of some enterprising man getting a lot of
them made, and advertising their advantages to the public*
If a thing is good, all it needs is advertising. Even if it* a
only three-quarters good, it willg-0 if it is properly exploited.
Or, further still, even if it’s only half good, and it*s adver-
tised properly, h is possible for it to win success. But a
thing must have some merit, to make a financial hit for its
proprietor* that is one of the maxims of the Advertising
Business.

Come back to clocks — talking clocks. For a century or
more we have had but two varieties of alarm clocks— the
cuckoo and the gong. To be sure, the cuckoo is a talker
in a measure, but not a diversified talker. All it says is
“Cuck-oo” once or twelve times as the case may be (or
up to twenty-four if you are Italian and your cuckoo is an
Italian also) . “ Cuck-oo ” — same tone of voice — twelve

times — middle of the night — and if you’re real sleepy — all
these are provocations that have discouraged the talking
clock idea. But the trouble is not with the idea; it’s with
the imperfect manner it has hitherto been worked out.

The time is ripe for something new in clocks. Because
the Ancients clung to the sun dial and the clepsydra and
the sand glass for a couple of thousand yean, it’s no reason
why we should not have something new, and right away
too, if we want it. The early English used a rush light in
a horn to measure the passing hours. Then came the
pendulum and weights, then springs and finally the balance
and balance wheel that made possible the modem watch.

known for thousands of years;
ly reached the age of twenty-
form, it is just five years old.

Now my idea of a talking clock is that it should above
all things be discreet. There are times when speech is sil-
ver but silenae golden. So with docks. After eleven at
night, dU waking time in the morning, it should just whisper
the hour; only loud enough ibr you to hear it if you’re
listening for it, and no louder. W hat do you want of a
clock that wakes you from a sound sleep by banging away
twelve timeson a bell? Why wouldn’t a gentle “ twelve M
spoken in a refined quiet way, be ever so much better?

Then there’s the complication that arises in your mind
when you hear a clock strike the half hour Is it one
o’clock, you ask yourself? Or half after one? Or half after
what? Yon actually fed obliged to stay awake for the
next half hour to find out what the clock meant by strik-
ing one; whereas if the dock said “one thirty ” or “ five
thirty * * you would know right off whether to turn over

Likewise to married men, who have lodge meetings to
attend or freque at dub nights or “ work at the office”
the talking dock whispering the early morning hours,
would be a boon. The all too familiar vision of a white
robed waiting figure, (kept awake during her lonely hours
by the striking of bells), would become a thing of the past.
She would sink into calm slumber at the accustomed
hour of retiring, and undisturbed by the gentle whisper of
the clock, speaking the midnight hour and the subsequent
small hours, she would continue to sleep. Then would
the Belated One reioice to find his homecoming unwatched.

rti»-n

He could fuddle with the key hole to his heart** content.
No one to chide him as he hangs up his shoes on the hat
rack. No one to eye him coldly as he tries to take off his
shirt before removing his collar. Only himself to blame if
he disturbs the sweet slumberer. Oh why doesn't some
good friend of humanity step forward and announce the
long — delayed — gentle — voiced talking clock!

Then the alarm feature of the new clock. Full of pos-
sibilities. The commuter could arrange a talking record
which announced, promptly at 7:28, “ Come Jones, time
to go — time’s up. Don’t eat the rest of that sausage- -re-
member the last time you ran for the train — don’t do it
again — hurry up — hurry — you ought to be at the door now
— goodbye. * * How much more expressive, coercive and

explicit than just one stroke of a bell meaning half past
seven! Result, Jones would catch the 7:43 every .morn-
ing, without churning up his coffee, and without barking
his shins on the bottom step of the last car.

At night too, when young Smith came to call on Clara,
Jones could go to sleep with perfect content ; knowing foil
well that at the reasonable hour of 10:52, his Phonograph
Clock would start off with a fitting preamble, whereas and
resolution, advising young Smith “It’s time to be gone.
Young man, come again, come often but just now it’s
time to be gone.” Young Smith would be surprised, per-
haps. That’s what the New Clock is intended for. Next
time he stayed late, he’d go surely before 10:49; for he
wouldn’t know what other little pleasantry the clock would
work off on him. That would be the beauty of the thing;
a new and different alarm could be prepared for each part-
icular event, thus keeping the novelty always fresh.

It’s novelty that quickens the pulse and stirs the blood.

NEW EDISON

B 359 Absent Minded Beggar.
B 337 Anvil Song.

B 357 Beer Song.

B 345 Calf of Gold.

B 35* Cooper’s Song.

B 34* Down Deep Within the
B 343 Father O’Flynn.

B 351 Friar of Orders Gray.

B 347 Heart Bowed Down.

B 356 How Fair Art Thou.

B 354 King O’er Land and Sea
B 338 Let All Obey.

b 34 6

B 341

B 344 Since Thou Art Mine.
B 353 Song of the Turnkey.
B348 Tale of a Whale.

B 339 The Palms.

B355 The Red Scarf.

B 358 The Vagabond.

B 350 Thursday.

B 340 Yarn of the Dates.

B 349 Who Treads the Path

of the

B 361 Uncle Josh and the
B 365 Uncle Josh at Deln
B 360 . Uncle Josh at the C
B 364 Uncle Josh at the (

Talking

B 362 Uncle Josh on the Pumps

Center R. R.

B 363 Unde Josh’s Arriral in N

Violin

Polish National

HAVING FUN WITH AN ECHO

trick of the

do so without

spot, near the be
arav of the House

object is dropped on the marble

of fun by

THE PHONOGRAM

A ’PHONE NAP COSTS MONEY.

To begin with, he*» “a good fellow.” That’* a
phrase easier understood by men than by women. It
generally means — well, it means he’s an all-round good
sort in the male line.

Saturday Afternoon he was feeling pretty good. He
had been quite thirsty, if what he had taken was to be
judged as a criterion. And the libations left him in a
thoroughly good humor, and he felt at peace with the
or 1 ^ •

In this delightful mental and physical state he be-
thought him of a friend of his in Providence, R. I. And
he further thought that he would call up that particular
friend on the telephone. ,

So he went to a Broad street hotel, told the young
women there who had charge of the 'phone that he

0

wanted to speak to Mr. So-and-So in Proridence, and
wouldn’t she kindly call up the party.

The girl did as she was bade.

Party’s on the ’phone,” she said, and the man went
into the telephone box, sat down and put the receiver to
his ear.

And then he calmly and sweetly dropped off to sleep.

When he woke up he owed the telephone company
S3*. 9°.

He said he wouldn’t pay it — but he did.

— From the Pkiladelpkia Press .

Miss Helen Gould has shown her interest in the sailors
of the American navy by donating a Phonograph and
stereoptacon to the crew of the United States training ship
Hartford.

AN UP TO DATE GHOST STORY

By Ma. Omni.

My friend Fisher recently decided to move.

A Ghost was the cause of his decision.

Fisher lives alone with a m aide n sister who i
deaf ; and for week
sometimes by bandi
by rag-time songs,
sermon telling of
but could find no

about his bead, ai

1 he would be as
punishment. He
He asked his m
renty years. He
ostlv sounds cond

with a shotgun. The

was baffled

haunted,

pacJted up tneir gooa
Then he did some
moving away just bee
Fisher still occupi
no more. The myi
boys. They had at
and had run the ho
house and fixed the i

e of a Ghost.

his old home and is supersddous
f was explained by two neighbor’s
bed a long hose to a Phonograph,
through an old water pipe to the
lie so that the sounds would reach
first arrests were threatened 5 but
nitence of the boys (when they learned of the
l they had caused ) , called for mercy and a settle-
rs effected out of court.

it was certainly a very severe test of Fisher’s nerves
he did that hard thinking.

which is worse — he

THOMAS A. EDISON

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travellers. The statue was tumbled over by an earthquake
in B. C. 17. Strabo, one of the earliest globe trotters
on record, visited Memnon in the year 7 A. D., and writes
rather cautiously of the voice, calling it merely a noise.
Other writers (among them Tacitus, recording the visit of
the Roman General Germanicus, A. D. 79) refer to the
sound as distinctly musical ; while still other enthusiastic
writers dignify it as a song. Among the notables whose
visits to the statue are recorded, are Titus Petronius
Secundus, a Roman Prefect, A. D. 82, and the Emperors
Hadrian, A. D. 140, and Septimiu* Severus, A. D. 194.

Several of the inscriptions (the earliest dating A.D. 65)
express or imply the idea that Memnon, when entire,
could speak in language; but since his mutilation was
reduced to inarticulate sounds. The best of the lot is by

Memnon could not die. When the
lother [Eos] fell brightly upon him,
it while the Soreadine Nile parts the

hills from hundred

A. D. 196, by Septimiu8
but alas ! the wonderful gift

MEDIEVAL

During the next ten
out number of talking a

have been produced by
has talked through ti

authentic

Gerber, a German Monk of an earlier period than
Bacon, is said to hare made a most wonderful brazen head
that talked, as did also Albertus Magnus ; but there is so
much that is legendary interwoven in the records that all
but Bacon’s head may be fairly put down as fables. Bacon’s
talking machine was doubtless suggested by the Speaking
Head of Orpheus, which was an awe inspiring enigma to
the early Greeks ; but it is more than probable that this
wonder was to be accounted for on the same principle as
the vocal power of the colossal statue of the Indian God,
Siva (the Destroyer) where a seat was provided for a priest
under the headgear of the figure. In the case of Memnon
however, it is generally conceded that the sounds were due

the deception of priests; thus establishing
Iking statue. The same may be said of
Its verity is vouched for by early testimony,
it without doubt as the first talking auto-

uck of Vaucanson, so c
lanical wonders of the
in 1740, and astonishe
ag in a life-like manni
ng its feathers, eating gi

wings

lanical Ingenuity
cperimenter. who
an, which easily
of the automaton

a Vienna

A brief description of Faber's talking man may be of in-
terest. It has flexible lips cf rubber, and also a rubber
tongue, ingeniously controlling vowels and consonants. In
its throat is a tiny fan wheel, by which the letter 1 r * i,
rolled. It has an ivory reed for vocal cords. Its mouth
is an oval cavity, the size of which is regulated by sliding
sections, rapidly operated from a key-board. A tube is at-
tached to its nose when it speaks French. It is really a
moat wonderful piece of mechanism, but a hundred times
more complicated than Mr. Edison's Phonograph of 1877,
or the perfected Phonograph of to-day.

to solve the problem
r, on its physical ride.

has but to be found,
the sound, and built
of the vibrations that

)f the vocal organs, Edison
d reproduced the action of
by the vibration caused by

vibrating diaphragm,

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respondence
welcomed

THE PHONOGRAM

MAY NOTES

^ My friend Col. George Smith, down in Jersey, k
somewhat of a genius. He has caused a telegraphic and
Phonographic connection to be made between his house
and the First M. E. Church, which k directly opposite $
and he k thus enabled to hear every part of the service
without the bother of going to church. This arrangement
will, I have no doubt, be a great source of religious comfort
to him in the future.

A to ^ W ' »

The Scopes are an ever increasing family. First the
Phantascope j also known as the Phantasmascope and the
Phenakistoscope. This was a curious optical toy, popular
some thirty or forty years ago. It consisted of a revolv-
ing disk, on which figures were drawn in different attitudes,
so that, when seen successively, they produced the appear-
ance of an object in actual morion 3 as an animal leaping or
a man walking or earing — due to the continuance of the
successive visual impressions on the retina. Along comes
Muybridge in the seventies or eighties, with hb wonderful
instantaneous photographs of the horse in morion, upsetting
all preconcaved ideas as to exactly how a running or leap-
ing horse should be drawn. Then Mr. Edison substituted
instantaneous photographs for these progressive dr*min£s 9
and the Kinetoscope was born. Then followed Latham’s
Eidoloscope, the Mutoacope, the Biograph, the CSneograph,
the Cinematograph, the Wargraph, the Vitascope, and
among others, the Kalatech noscope. All these wonderful
names mean just “ moving picture machines.**

I know a man who bought a Phonograph to sing to his
baby. He also bought a lot of blank cylinders to record

But the baby didn't coo all through the
I've heard some of the home-made
11 you, some of them are “howling’*

holding in its beak a sent or
may.

All writers are Birds, in
shreds of information and th
them into a nest which they
This month I am Yellow
wise, a Yellow

or a Yellow shafted Wood-
the bark of apple trees for grubs
uncturations thereon, and which
forms, some of which do resem-

volume one.

I am clinging

and there all over the bark f
lation ; food for thought for

which I confid
*1 in tkrce't to a

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ies and Fan Motors.
Numbering Stamps,
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Original

AVENUE. NEW

to follow I

what other* hare said. Or
ng with melody the neigh-
Bird — an Oriole, wearing
an and amusement. Or 1
split tongue repeating (but
arrot) odd bits I hare heard
Or again, some other rime,
which pleases my eye and
re. Whatever Bird I may
ar in my beak a scrit, screed
: the contents thereof to be —

which I

the months to come.

f I met Cal Stewart on the train the other day, on his
way to Orange, New Jersey, to put in a morning of work
at the Edison Laboratory making records. Everybody
knows Cal or ought to. He b the Popular Yankee
Comedian, and the author of the quaint talks known to all
talking machine enthusiasts as the “ Uncle Josh ” series.
And he’s just as jolly in everyday life as he b on hb

“Haow be yew,” he said to me. “1
What you’ve been up tew ?” “ (

and I told him about The Phonogram
Well, the upshot of our conversatk

MAY NOTES

>IRTPROOF

three or four funny talks ; something
gThe has up his sleeve — never been published
Watch for the June Phokogsam.

. KHAKI CLOTH

A New Fabric for Summer Wear .

Made famous (in this country, at least) by the
Rough Riders and their charge “up the hill.’*

Until the Spanish- American unpleasantness, what khaki
loth had been used by the U. S. Army was imported from
tngland. For many yean England has equipped all her
Indian troops with khaki uniforms. The cloth is light
reight. It is fairly waterproof. It don’t show dirt. It
nakfa a cool garment.

COOL

WATERPROOF

larly in 1898, the United States Government solicited
ids from American manufacturers for enough khaki to
quip the Cuban Army of Invasion. Contracts were
warded to many firms, with the result of several grades of
loth. One mill in particular, however, produced such an
xcellent weave that the Government reserved the output
f that one mill for the exclusive use of its OFFICERS.
LB. — This is the mill whose Khaki Cloth I offer.

)NE DOLLAR A YARD — j 6 inches wide

It cannot be excelled in fitness for golf skirts or for walking
kirts. For children's use, entire suits are the thing. For
sen's wear, it is coder than duck and more serviceable,
am pies sent to any one interested. Goods sent C. O. D.
nth privilege of ex a mina tion. I pay exp ress charges both
rays if the fabric does not meet your expectation.

Phn Wright, 234 Union St., Hackensack, N.J.

I.B. — I respectfully request intending purchasers to avail
ves of my offer to send samples, that I may feel
that each package sent C. O. D. will stay placed.

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